In response to the country’s need for low-cost permanent housing, Vo Trong Nghia Architects in Vietnam have developed a lightweight, modular home using a precast concrete skeleton for structural support and thermal comfort, according to designboom.com. Features include polycarbonate panels to bring in natural light, nipa palm and corrugated cement …
Vietnamese Architects Develop Low-cost Modular Housing Read More
Updating a story MHProNews last posted May 22, 2014 regarding shipping containers becoming homes for liquified natural gas (LNG) workers in northern British Columbia, the $120,000 modular units are outfitted with many home amenities including flat screen TV, computer workstation, stainless steel appliances and floor-to-ceiling windows to bring in natural …
Converted Modular Shipping Containers may house up to 100,000 Read More
A 30 year-old pregnant firefighter with ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), commonly called Lou Gehrig’s disease, and her husband in Madison, Connecticut are on the receiving end of a new modular home being built with donations to accommodate a wheelchair for when she returns from giving birth. Because hers is a …
Another addition to the “instant house movement” that MHProNews has documented April 24, 2014 and Jan. 27, 2014, among others, is 3D printer construction technology called Contour Crafting which produces concrete buildings using a giant robotic printer in one day, and is capable of constructing round and straight formations. Developer …
3D Printer Pours out Concrete to Form Modular House Read More
Another school district is considering adding modular classrooms to keep up with enrollment growth at the elementary level, according to wickedlocal.com. The Natick (Massachusetts) School Committee is considering how planned housing in the city will bring more students into the school system. The district may not be able to wait …
Modular Classrooms will Accommodate Additional Students Read More
Following a story MHProNews first published Sept. 1, 2014 regarding a modular workforce housing complex to be built in McComb, Mississippi for oilfield workers fracking on the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) in southwest MS and central Louisiana, the 536-bed lodge by CMS Consultants, LLC of Metairie, LA will be constructed …
Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Braces for expected Oilfield Worker Onslaught Read More
Modular home builder IQ Technologies, Inc. Canada has entered into a joint venture with EnerDynamic Hybrid Technologies Corp. (TSX-V:EHT) of Ontario, Canada to include EHT’s solar and wind energy systems in their homes, according to newswire.ca. IQ provides and installs sustainable modular homes globally that can be installed in one …
IQ Tech Mod Builder Partners with EnerDynamic Hybrid Tech. Read More
An association from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is supplying 50 Palestinian families in the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis with modular homes to replace those destroyed in the fighting between Hamas and Israel. Imad al-Haddad, the head of the association, said each home has two bedrooms, a bathroom …
As the U. S. Border Patrol doubled its staff in Ajo, Arizona nine miles north of the Mexican border, the government bought land and sited 20 manufactured homes and built 21 two-and-three bedroom homes for the expansion, spending $17 million, about $680,000 per home in a town of less than …
Manufactured Homes Provided for Border Patrol Agents Read More
Skyline Corporation received a going concern qualification from its independent registered public accounting firm, which was included in the Corporation’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, included with its consolidated financial statements for its fiscal year ending May 31, 2014, according to yahoofinance.com. The independent audit was filed with the Securities …
Australian builder Nova Deko, realizing that shipping containers are overbuilt in terms of converting them to homes, is taking advantage of the transportation handling system that made globalism happen by building modular homes in China the same size as containers so they can be easily transported. Built in a factory …
Chinese Modular Homes Made Shippable like Containers Read More
For a new approach to cliffside dwelling, Modscape Concept designed this five-story modular home for a couple on the Southwest Coast of Victoria, Australia, according to hillpost.in (India). The top floor is for a carport for two cars, and the only entryway to the home. An elevator provides access to …
The Wisconsin Housing Alliance reports the production of off-site built homes is down this year, especially for modular homes, which suffered a drop of ten percent in 2013 over 2012. As biz-times.com tells MHProNews, production in 2004 was almost 700 percent higher. Pittsville Homes closed this summer after 40 years …
Manufactured Housing Growing, Modular Home Production Slipping in Wisconsin Read More
The Dodge City (Kansas) Commission listened to a group of south Dodge City residents voice disapproval of plans for a 12 modular home development, with one remonstrater referring to them as “trailers,” saying property values will suffer as the result. According to dodgeglobe.com, the city’s planning and zoning board approved …
Proposed Modular Development Approved by Planning and Zoning Board Read More
Plans to site 166 new modular homes in a proposed development in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on both sides of the South Alouette River are raising concerns with nearby residents—and the eyebrows of district staff. The increased density for the area would move from 2.5 residential units per hectare (nearly …
Modular Housing Development to Straddle Canadian River Read More
Noted Seattle architectural firm CollinsWoerman, which MHProNews last covered April 22, 2011 as it developed plans for a multifamily modular unit in Seattle, has teamed up with Intellectual Ventures to strengthen its intellectual property regarding component parts of its modular system. The joint venture, called Innovative Building Technologies, LLC (IBT) …
CollinsWoerman Readies Patented Modular Housing Components for Market Read More
In the continuing saga between developer Forest City Ratner and builder Skanska regarding the battle over construction of the largest modular apartment building in the world, as MHProNews posted here last Sept. 2, 2014, both parties have filed suit against the other. In its complaint, Skanska alleges “serious commercial and …
Forest City and Skanska Cross-File Lawsuits over Massive Modular Housing Project Read More
Writing in centraljersey.com, Anne Waldron Neumann tells MHProNews the Tiny House movement is attractive because it is off the grid—solar panels, recycled building materials, composting toilets, propane tanks—and it offers an anti-consumerism while still being community/neighborhood-friendly. She even suggests they could create more population density in Princeton, New Jersey by …
While the oil boom in the Bakken Formation area near Watford City, North Dakota has brought a lot of quick prosperity to many local residents, the character of the town is changing due to the growth of the 1,400 residents six years ago to 10,000 today. As The atlantic.com tells …
Affordable Housing still Wanting in the Bakken Oilfields area of North Dakota Read More
Due to over-and under-crowding in the Wake County (North Carolina) Public School System, board members discussed changing the academic calendar from a ten month calendar to a multi-track calendar, or install 21 modular classrooms to relieve overcrowding in the elementary and middle schools. Capacity in the different schools range from …
